What's so funny about this whole situation is that there is plenty of crude. All shortages have been artificially created.
We are the Saudi Arabia of natural gas, yet we are not using it widely as a motor fuel.
All the things that China is enjoying now are on the back of American innovators.
The only reason they are where they are now is because we have spent money and continue to do so with stores that sell Chinese product. We have not said to Walmart and others, "No American products, we won't spend a dime."
Until we wake up en masse and stop spending money on the people who can't stand us, we won't be free.
I'm done, getting off soapbox, going to build still and run my stuff on homemade.